Rotary Club la Valetta supports the Opera Nova Project

Rotary Club la Valette Club President Godfrey Swain together with Board members Patricia Salomone, Bryan Sullivan and Sandra La Rosa attended a session from an Opera Nova Project weekend Masterclass run by Paul McNamara, the Artistic Leader of the Dutch National Opera Academy at the Opera Nova premises within The Catholic Institute in Floriana.

The Opera Nova Project is the mastermind of Soprano Gillian Zammit and Ms Denise Mulholland, who conceived and launched a first of its kind in Malta vocal programme providing a holistic, high level musical education for classical voice students.  This is an opportunity for local and international singers, who have already gone through the initial stages of training, to receive a higher level of musical education in Malta allowing local talent the opportunity to develop their talents without the need to move overseas and dealing with costly travel and residential accommodation.

In true Rotarian spirit which encourages support for education and training, Rotary Club la Valette has made it this Rotarian year’s project to support Opera Nova Project with a donation of Eur 10,000.00.

Godfrey Swain said, ‘It was an eye-opening experience to attend an opera masterclass, to witness the depth of talent in the Maltese musical scene and realise how much hard work goes into every note sung, how much effort in pronunciation and stress on musical awareness these young people must master when presenting themselves in public in a professional context. We are proud to be supporting this amazing project in its very first year’ concluded Rotarian Swain before thanking Mr. Paul McNamara for coming over to Malta to work with local talent, complementing Gillian Zammit and Denise Mulholland for their fantastic work and wishing the young performing artists every success for their future musical careers.